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The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 29 hrs and 6 mins
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Published four years after Rousseau's death, Confessions is a remarkably frank and honest self-portrait, described by Rousseau as "the history of my soul". From his idyllic youth in the Swiss mountains, to his career as a composer in Paris and his abandonment of his children, Rousseau lays bare his entire life with preternatural honesty. He relates his scandals, follies, jealousies, sexual exploits, and unrequited loves, as well as the torrential events surrounding his controversial works Discourses, Emile, and The Social Contract, which led to his persecution and wanderings in exile. Confessions provides an invaluable window into the making of the man, the society he lived in, and the development of ideas that would have a profound influence on philosophers and political theorists to come.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-08-22
A rare insight
It’s not a fantastic story nor an especially entertaining one, but it’s honest and based in reality of an 18th century man navigating his way through life.
It’s full of petty squabbles and disputes that one now may think insignificant but as it is described it had profound meaning in the life of Rousseau. Much of what your life really consists of today, meaning universally insignificant disputes and problems that affect you personally greatly anyway.
You get his perspective, his subjective reality and his reasoning on paper and you realize it’s very much applicable on life today. As you dive into the life of the medieval man you learn that things don’t change all that much; there are only less pitchforks and torches in the life of today.
Priceless and highly recommended.
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